we had one of the better known chefs in the city that helps us out, ula and he has had a restaurant well forever a decade, south of market. he has left and we now just hired a gentleman from a very, very reputable lace. we really wouldn't be spending $100,000 a year on a chef if we weren't serving dinner. no one was paid to leave. one of the neighbors directly above the restaurant was a vegan. and also sober. she is a great lady and we had an ongoing dialogue all the way through the construction process and we worked with her on times that we worked and didn't work. and in the end, the smell of the burgers was just too much for her. she moved to the other side of the building. we helped her do it. i feel that is a very neighborly thing. another neighbor just had an operation. she had an issue with the crowd noise. recently we put in double pane windows for her so she could recover in peace. everybody that has ever approached us about anything, neighborhood-wise has always gotten a card from myself or our general manager and everyone has our personal cell phone numbers if there are issues

people like ula. who is a constituent of mine. that lucky draw in the lottery was her best hope for coming to america from kazakhstan. it is irresponsible, mr. speaker, to hold the much needed and i would say we need it stem visa bill hostage just to dismantle a program that has helped new immigrants, new americans like ula. it's bad policy and i urge my colleagues to reject the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? without objection, so ordered. mr. moran: mr. speaker, the consequences of jumping off this so-called fiscal cliff are serious. but avoidable if the sacrifice is shared. my concern is that the domestic discretionary accounts don't seem to have a seat at the negotiating table. if you don't have a seat at the table, you are far more likely to be on the menu. domestic discretionary fund something already projected to fall to historically low levels at less than 3% of g.d.p. this is less than what existed during the eisenhower a